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(1) Humanities departments in America are once again being axed. The reasons, one hears, are economic rather than ideological. I
(1) Humanities departments in America are once again being axed. The reasons, one hears, are economic rather than ideological. I
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2020-11-21
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(1) Humanities departments in America are once again being axed. The reasons, one hears, are economic rather than ideological. It’s not that schools don’t care about the humanities—they just can’t afford them. But if one looks at these institutions’ priorities, one finds a hidden ideology at work.
(2) Earlier this month, the State University of New York (Suny) Stony Brook announced a plan to eliminate several of the college’s well-regarded departments for budgetary reasons. Undergraduates will no longer be able to major in comparative literature, cinema and cultural studies or theater arts.
(3) Three doctoral programs would be cut, and three departments (European languages and literature, Hispanic languages and literature, and cultural studies) would be merged into one. Not only students but faculty will be affected: many untenured (未获得终身职位的) teachers would lose their jobs, and doctoral candidates would have to finish their studies elsewhere.
(4) This is happening at a time in which high salaries are awarded to college administrators that dwarf those of a junior or even senior faculty member teaching in at-risk departments. That discrepancy can only be explained through ideology. The decision to reduce education to a corporate consumer-driven model, providing services to the student-client, is ideological too.
(5) Suny Stony Brook is spending millions on a multiyear program entitled "Far Beyond" that is intended to "rebrand" the college’s image: a redesigned logo and website, new signs, banners and flags throughout the campus. Do colleges now care more about how a school looks and markets itself than about what it teaches? Has the university become a theme park: Collegeland, churning out workers trained to fill particular niches? Far beyond what?
(6) The threat of cuts that Suny Stony Brook is facing is not entirely new. In 2010, Suny Albany announced that it was getting rid of its Russian, classics, theater, French and Italian departments—a decision later rescinded (取消). The University of Pittsburgh has cut its German, classics and religious studies program.
(7) This problem has parallels internationally. In the UK, protests greeted Middlesex University’s 2010 decision to phase out its philosophy department. In June 2015, the Japanese minister of education sent a letter to the presidents of the national universities of Japan, suggesting they close their graduate and undergraduate departments in the humanities and social sciences and focus on something more practical.
(8) Most recently, the Hungarian government announced restrictions that would essentially make it impossible for the Central European University, funded by George Soros, to function in Budapest.
(9) These are hard times. Students need jobs when they graduate. But a singular opportunity has been lost if they are denied the opportunity to study foreign languages, the classics, literature, philosophy, music, theater and art. When else in their busy lives will they get that chance?
(10) Eloquent defenses of the humanities have appeared—essays explaining why we need these subjects, what their loss would mean. Those of us who teach and study are aware of what these areas of learning provide: the ability to think critically and independently: to tolerate ambiguity: to see both sides of an issue: to look beneath the surface of what we are being told: to appreciate the ways in which language can help us understand one another more clearly and profoundly—or, alternately, how language can conceal and misrepresent. They help us learn how to think, and they equip us to live in—to sustain—a democracy.
(11) Studying the classics and philosophy teaches students where we come from, and how our modes of reasoning have evolved over time. Learning foreign languages, and about other cultures, enables students to understand how other societies resemble or differ from our own. Is it entirely paranoid (多疑的) to wonder if these subjects are under attack because they enable students to think in ways that are more complex than the reductive simplifications so congenial (适合的) to our current political and corporate discourse?
(12) I don’t believe that the humanities can make you a decent person. We know that Hitler was an ardent (热心的) Wagner fan and had a lively interest in architecture. But literature, art and music can focus and expand our sense of what humans can accomplish and create. The humanities teach us about those who have gone before us: a foreign language brings us closer to those with whom we share the planet.
(13) The humanities can touch those aspects of consciousness that we call intellect and heart—organs seemingly lacking among lawmakers whose views on health care suggest not only zero compassion but a poor understanding of human experience, with its crises and setbacks.
(14) Courses in the humanities are as formative and beneficial as the classes that will replace them. Instead of Shakespeare or French, there will be (perhaps there already are) college classes in how to trim corporate spending—courses that instruct us to eliminate "frivolous" programs of study that might actually teach students to think.
It can be inferred from the passage that Suny Stony Brook______.
选项
A、drafted out its department-cutting plan at the beginning of this month
B、intended to abolish some reputable practical departments
C、will make some teachers working in the humanities departments jobless
D、will have humanities undergraduates continue their schooling somewhere else
答案
C
解析
推断题。原文第三段提到,纽约州立大学石溪分校会取消三个博士项目,并将三个院系(欧洲语言文学、西裔语言文学和文化研究)合并成一个,不仅学生,教职工也将受到影响,许多未获得终身职位的教师会失去工作,博士研究生要到其他地方完成学业。由此可知,在这三个人文学院工作的部分教师会受到影响并失去工作,故答案为C,同时排除D,因为原文提到的是人文学科的博士研究生而不是本科生要到其他地方继续学业。第二段第一句指出,石溪分校宣布出于预算的原因要取消该校几个口碑良好的院系,由此可知,本月初是宣布而不是起草院系削减计划,故排除A;该段第二句提到,本科生将再也不能主修比较文学、电影和文化研究或戏剧艺术了,结合第一句可知,石溪分校计划取消的几个口碑良好的院系是人文学科的而非实用学科的,B与原文表述不符,故排除。
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